I think of the way that Snape lived and died, without any guarantee that his efforts would be recognized or even that people would ever stop spitting on his grave, as the characterization of the way JKR felt about some of the things she had to do as a young mother on the run with her baby. If you know you're doing something to protect your most loved person, you can withstand being reviled, misunderstood, despised, or called a coward for running away. But it galls. I think it was hard on her pride to be the formerly promising genius girl who was a single mom on welfare, the same way that Snape always grits his teeth when people laugh at him for allegedly groveling for, and failing to achieve, the petty goal of switching jobs to DADA professor.
I know a lot of people loathe Cursed Child, but I was deeply unsurprised to find that Snape is unambiguously celebrated as a hero in that one. I think the Snape portion of that story is one fulfillment of the fantasy of somehow letting the dead know that they are posthumously appreciated.
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I think of the way that Snape lived and died, without any guarantee that his efforts would be recognized or even that people would ever stop spitting on his grave, as the characterization of the way JKR felt about some of the things she had to do as a young mother on the run with her baby. If you know you're doing something to protect your most loved person, you can withstand being reviled, misunderstood, despised, or called a coward for running away. But it galls. I think it was hard on her pride to be the formerly promising genius girl who was a single mom on welfare, the same way that Snape always grits his teeth when people laugh at him for allegedly groveling for, and failing to achieve, the petty goal of switching jobs to DADA professor.
I know a lot of people loathe Cursed Child, but I was deeply unsurprised to find that Snape is unambiguously celebrated as a hero in that one. I think the Snape portion of that story is one fulfillment of the fantasy of somehow letting the dead know that they are posthumously appreciated.